Ben Dooley
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 10
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[1924, 1952]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his biggest adventure yet, Tarzan discovers a land of ant-size people-and after getting caught up in their war, is shrunk down to their diminutive stature.
Though chief of the Waziri and lord of a vast African estate, Tarzan has not lost his taste for adventure. While flying a biplane above his beloved jungle, he discovers a mysterious land previously unknown to him: the isolated country of Minuni, inhabited by a race of tiny, warlike people....
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 9
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
The story picks up with the Clayton family, Tarzan, Jane Porter and their son Korak, returning from their adventures in the previous novel (#8). Along the way they find an orphaned lion cub, which Tarzan takes home and trains.Flora Hawkes, a previous housemaid of the Clayton's had overheard of Tarzan's discovery of the treasure chamber in the lost city of Opar (from The Return of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar) and had managed to copy his...
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[1916]
Language
English
Description
Alice discovers an unknown land on the other side of the mirror and finds herself part of a problem in chess, meeting some unlikely characters of nursery rhyme and puzzled by the reversal of many of the laws of nature.
The follow-up to Alice in Wonderland, originally appeared in 1871 and has not been out of print since. Curious Alice finds her way through a mirror into an amazing alternate world that is, in some ways, a reverse version of our own....
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 6
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[1917]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was true that Tarzan and Tantor were the best of friends, and that Tarzan never yet had tasted of the flesh of the elephant; but the Gomangani evidently had slain one, and as they were eating of the flesh of their kill, Tarzan was assailed by no doubts as to the ethics of his doing likewise, should he have the opportunity. Had he known that the elephant had died of sickness several days before the blacks discovered the carcass, he might not have...
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
As WWI breaks out in Africa, the ape man must avenge a brutal attack on his home, in this 1920 adventure novel from the original Tarzan series.
The violence of World War I has spread into colonial Africa, and while Lord Greystoke-better known as Tarzan-is away from his estate, it is destroyed by German soldiers. When he returns to the burned remains of his home, Tarzan discovers what appears to be the body of his wife, Jane. Brokenhearted and mad...
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[1916]
Language
English
Description
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is the fifth adventure in the saga of the jungle lord and features both one of the series most celebrated locations, the lost city of Opar, as well as one of its most celebrated characters, the ruthless, obsessed and fatally beautiful La of Opar.
Seeking to make off with some of the lost city of Opar's treasures, Tarzan survives an earthquake only to take a blow to the head and be stricken with partial amnesia, leaving...
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 19
Publisher
Ballentine
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Tarzan's wife Jane (her first appearance since Tarzan and the Ant Men and also her last as a major character in the series), becomes involved in a search for a bloodthirsty lost tribe reputed to possess an immortality drug. Also drawn in are Tarzan and his monkey companion, little Nkima, and Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors, who are searching for Muviro's lost daughter Buira. Nkima's vital contribution to the adventure is recognized when...
Author
Series
Everyday zoo volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hayley and Harley Hippo want to pray, but it seems like such hard work to do it right. The book they read say so. Then a comical collection of animal friends, an almost angelic pelican, a sheep librarian, a bear policeman, and more helps them see that prayer can be done anywhere, anytime, and in many ways.
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 20
Publisher
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc
Pub. Date
©1938.
Language
English
Description
A young man named Brian Gregory has disappeared in Africa, looking for the fabled Father of Diamonds; his father and sister want to go rescue him, and they can only enlist Tarzan's help because they know Captain Paul D`Arnot. By chance, Tarzan and Brian are lookalike, thus making some vile scoundrels to think Tarzan is Brian. They are also heading out after the big old diamond. The Forbidden city is again in a secret valley, with two cities Ashair...
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 21
Publisher
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc
Pub. Date
©1939.
Language
English
Description
Tarzan encounters a lost race with uncanny mental powers, after which he revisits the lost cities of Cathne and Athne, previously encountered in the earlier novel Tarzan and the City of Gold. As usual, he is backed up by Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors.